#proverbs

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. ↗

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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ↗

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

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It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started. ↗

— Tim Tebow

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The only way to tell a fable is to introduce a human. The only way to tell a proverb is to introduce your grandfather. ↗

— Bauvard

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If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. ↗

— Askhari Johnson Hodari

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Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. ↗